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We are back at it and making some progress.

In all my years of rehabbing and selling properties, never have I had a house take so long to get back onto the market.  There is a major difference though.  The Fowler house I am trying to restore as much as I can to its original character rather than just update everything.  It has been much harder and more challenging to restore.  I am having a fun time with it but at times it can be frustrating. At this time I have all the mechanicals done, framing done and...

Roof is getting done this week and gas was installed. Do I repair plaster or sheet rock the entire house?

In the last month it has been slow going at the Fowler House.  With the accumulation of all the snow and frigid cold temps it was difficult to get any workers wanting to work in a house without heat.  My last blog said that the HVAC was going to be done in just a couple days but with the cold temps and difficulty even driving, I was just informed today that the HVAC system is installed in the house.  All we are waiting on is Intermountain Gas to install the gas meter.  It was...

Mechanicals will all be done this week and than we will be starting sheet rock in the basement and restoring plaster throughout the house.

Things are progressing at the Fowler House! Several aspects of the rehab are underway.It took 2.5 weeks and all the framing is completed by Icon Construction and it looks great.  The stairs down to the basement are complete, the downstairs rooms are framed out, the master bedroom, bathroom and walk in closet.  You can see the design in the house now.  We moved the rear door and made it into a French door. Electrical and plumbing are in this week while HVAC will be i...

Demo and framing have started and should be complete in 2 weeks allowing plumbing, electrical and HVAC to start their work.

After many months of getting the restoration started, it has finally started and over the next couple months huge transformations will occur.

It has been several weeks since the last blog post about the Fowler House but we are finally getting somewhere.  Once I finally got the Certificate of Appropriateness from the Historic District, which is the OK from the Historic District allowing us to do what we want to do with the house, I had to work on getting my building permit.  This comes with another set of frustrations.  Since this is my first full restoration, I am having to learn a lot about the process along the way.&n...

Once we finally decided on the perfect layout for what the interior of the "Fowler House" will look like we than had to submit it to the Boise Historic District to get the go ahead with the exterior.